134. Behind Bars for Berating Sports Officials: The New Kansas Bill on Youth Sports

from The Closing Pitch Baseball Podcast · host Spiker Helms and David Birkby

Kansas House Bill 2139 would make verbal or physical abuse of an umpire a misdemeanor. If this passes, how will the youth sports community react? Will we start seeing people being taken away in a cop car to be detained? Spiker and Dave dive into the subject.  Umpire conversation on the Tiger Interview Series: https://youtu.be/5vdRvbN6OEk (00:00:04:24) Introduction (TV bumpers, the Hammer Law, In this episode) (04:24-07:06) Kansas House Bill 2139 (07:07-11:15) Slippery Slope (11:16-17:26) The penalties and community sentiment (17:27-20:17) Umpires, how bad is the abuse? (20:18-26:46) Where does this go?

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